Yeeeeesh. Yikes, even.

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http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net

[you can all blame baobh for sharing the doomsaying]

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[angel-renewed.livejournal.com]

Um. I'm moving to Mars. Now.

[katyakoshka.livejournal.com]

You know, it says something about how close I am to tin-foil-hat-dom when I read that and find myself unsurprised. I am such a paranoid conspiracy-theorist in the making. Ack.

Oh, and we may not need to worry about the oil crash... Yellowstone could blow any year now in an eruption that would dwarf Tambora 1815 (which caused 1816 to be the "Summerless Year"). :D

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[etcet.livejournal.com]

last time yellowstone blew, it nearly caused the extinction of the human race ~6500 years ago, iirc. [i wasn't there, however]

but yeah. . . i'm sitting here going, "well, shit, maybe i -should- stay where it's warm. . . "

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[etcet.livejournal.com]

well, you can't spell "Barsoom" without "Bars."

[anyone who gets that gets a sf geek cookie]

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[angel-renewed.livejournal.com]

warm and close to the ocean (for food). Yeah, I'll be in Florida should any of you need me.

I, personally, am blaming Mord for all this.

[webmd.livejournal.com]

When the reality of our situation hit me, my friend Jack Daniels made the whole situation much easier to handle.

That's why I'm switching over to an alcohol-fueled lifestyle.

Thanks for some fun afternoon office reading... :-P

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[inlaterdays.livejournal.com]

edgar rice burroughs ;)

often quoted by heinlein!

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[etcet.livejournal.com]

i figured you or pete would be the first ones in with this...

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[etcet.livejournal.com]

yeah, i know, i know. you're welcome to join the drunken southern horde of freaks, as far as i can tell....

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[etcet.livejournal.com]

i didn't think he drank that heavily. . . but i guess you had to learn from somewhere. . . hehe

Shit!

[smaugchow.livejournal.com]

Why the fuck am I working so hard to pay off this credit card? I should be buying canned goods and learnig to plow a field with a horse. At least there is a family farm, though it's a Christmas tree farm right now. Gonna have to plant an ass-load of tomatoes......

No offense to all you good people, but should this armageddon scenario arise, my old man has enough guns to outfit the entire family and enough ammo to launch several raids against the local Kwik-E-Mart, so ya'll better just put that last box of Twinkies down and back the fuck away, ya dig?

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

What a loon... The base facts and numbers written are okay, but the conclusions entirely presuppose that things stay exactly as they are, for decades. Things don't stay stable for decades. 15 year ago, no major auto manufacturer would have considered the possibility of non-internal combustion automobiles as economically possible. 10 years ago, it was only a government mandate to try. Today, there are two economically viable hybrids available to the normal public, and two fleet-purchaseable fully-electric vehicles.

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[angel-renewed.livejournal.com]

Hell with that. I'm kicking it OLD school. We'll mount a takeover of some half-inhabited Caribbean island and have all the rum and fruit we want!

Speaking of... did you know they're opening a Hard Rock Hotel in Tampa *AND* that it doesn't even have a cafe? WTF? They've gone greedy.

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[smaugchow.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the hotel thing is gearing up. I expect them to start popping up in lots of resort towns. One just opened in Chicago.

It is a privately held company, so some bastard is making lotsa cash.

[ladysoleil.livejournal.com]

Well, I figure I'm about to freeze to death in the northeast anyway, so it's not that big a deal.

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[katyakoshka.livejournal.com]

i'm sitting here going, "well, shit, maybe i -should- stay where it's warm. . . "

Shift longitude, but not latitude... unless the latter is going southwards. Yep.

I was already figuring that if I wanted to leave SoCal... I wouldn't be looking to the PNW, the NE, or the northern MW. Hi, completely creating a winter wardrobe is expensive!